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So being the dummy that I am, I clicked a fishy link and mindlessly ran java when prompted. Came to my senses very quickly and closed the page almost immediately, but doing a bit of research I'm almost sure the site was malicious/some sort of malware.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.8.3 with JRE 1.6.0.43 and visited the site with Firefox 20. I haven't noticed anything wrong with my computer so far but am just wondering what my chances of infection are and if there's anything I should do or be looking out for.

Hard to tell what may or may not have happened not knowing what the site was (please don't post a link - it will be removed). Can you describe what happened, what you were doing, what the prompt looked like and what it was asking?

Basically it was just a "check out this video!" type link, which took me to a page that showed a graphic like a video was loading (which I'm pretty sure was fake). A banner appeared on the top of firefox asking me to allow java to run either once or always on the site. Looked like this except for firefox instead of chrome: I clicked run once and almost right after I thought what am I doing? and closed the page right away. I never entered a password or seemed to download anything besides allowing the .jar file to run.